Title:
Reconstruction : a reference guide / Paul E. Teed and Melissa Ladd Teed.
Author:
Teed, Paul E., author.
Teed, Melissa Ladd, author.
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]
©2015
Call Number:
E668 .T28 2015
Abstract:
"Reconstruction: A Reference Guide covers the entire period of Reconstruction (1863–1877) with a special emphasis on the struggle for social and political equality in the post-Civil War South. The book's analytical essays, selection of primary documents, and biographies of key participants give readers an understanding of social, political, and economic changes that occurred during this important period as well as provide opportunities to explore more specific issues and debates. Synthesizing and building on the work of recent scholars, the book documents how the central struggles of Reconstruction revolved around the meaning of freedom for former slaves. The essays describe how a new and sometimes deadly conflict over equal rights and racial justice raged throughout the South in the post-Civil War period and generated a constitutional crisis in the nation's capital as former slaves created alliances with sympathetic whites and sought to build a biracial democracy in the former Confederacy. Readers will not only understand the facts and events of the period, but will also be introduced to historical sources and key interpretive debates"--Publisher's website.
ISBN:
9781610695329
Series:
Guides to historic events in America
Guides to historic events in America.
Physical Description:
xxxvii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Contents:
Prologue: Slavery, war, and emancipation -- Wartime experiments and the meaning of freedom -- Presidential Reconstruction : the emerging conflict -- Toward radical Reconstruction -- Congressional Reconstruction at high tide -- Reconstruction in the states -- The defeat of Reconstruction -- Counterfactual essay: Would Reconstruction have been different if Lincoln had lived? -- Defining moments essay: How did the passage of Southern black codes change the direction of Reconstruction? -- Document analysis essay: The Fourteenth Amendment -- Perspectives essay: How radical was radical Reconstruction? -- Adelbert Ames -- Susan B. Anthony -- William G. Brownlow -- Blance K. Bruce -- Richard "Daddy" Cain -- Frederick Douglass -- Ulysses S. Grant -- Charlotte Forten Grimke -- Wade Hampton III -- Gen. Oliver O. Howard -- Andew Johnson -- Lucius Quintus Lamar -- P.B.S. Pinchback -- Hiram Revels -- Carl Schurz -- Philip Sheridan -- Robert Smalls -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Thaddeus Stevens -- Charles Sumner -- Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas -- Albion Tourgee -- Laura Towne -- Primary Documents -- The Thirteenth Amendment -- Address from colored citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, to the people of the United States -- Mississippi black codes -- Circular no. 2, by the Mississippi Freedmen's Bureau Assistant Commissioner, Samuel Thomas -- Andrew Johnson, "Proclaimation of Amnesty and Reconstruction," May 29, 1865 -- Speech of Thaddeus Stevens, December 18, 1865 -- 1866 Civil Rights Act -- Andrew Johnson, veto of the Civil Rights Bill, March 27, 1866 -- First Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867 -- Andrew Johnson, veto fo the First Military Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867 --Editoral response to the veto of the Military Reconstruction Bill -- Frederick Douglas, "What the Black Man Wants" -- The Fifteen Amendment -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on suffrage -- Charles Summer on the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, May 26, 1868 -- Case of Fanny Tipton v. Richard Sanford, Huntsville, Alabama, March 24, 1866 -- The letter of Phebe Trotter to Provost Marshal and the affidavit of Eliza Avant were enclosed in a letter that Chaplain L.S. Livermore sent to Lt. Col. R.S. Donaldson, January 10, 1866 -- Testimony of Isaac A. Postle -- Laura Towne letters on election violence in South Carolina -- Representative James M. Leach's opposition to the Ku Klux Act, 1871 -- Hiram Revels to President U.S. Grant, November 6, 1875 -- Adelbert Ames to the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, January 4, 1876.
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